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Our group discussion focused a lot on cultural differences in the way we teach math.  Our western system is more tailored to specific students needs and learning abilities where as somewhere like china has a more linear system.  Which one is the best? I don't think we know the answer to this but I think the best we can do is to just adapt constantly.  The "westernised" system seems to be at least trying to get better constantly by making changes to the way we educate.  We are always doing a little bit of trial and error.  In our group we discussed an aspect of the pendulum swinging back and forth we our education system may be doing, but at the same time this pendulum is moving forward in the right direction.  So if you can imagine the pendulum going back and forth along the y and x axis but at the same time it is moving forward along the z axis as we get closer and closer to reaching a "perfect" system.  These educational systems are constantly changing on this pendulum much like our sense of fashion is.